NO STOPPING JUNIOR AT LOTON PARK

Having been out during the week and bought up all of the available spares for the broken 'diff from the week before at Shelsley Walsh, Graeme Wight Junior got the Gould V6 fixed and ran away with yet another couple of wins in the Tran-X British Hill Climb Championship at Loton. Even the wet weather could not put him off.... In practice though, he was 0.2 seconds inside his own record so had it been dry, another point or two may have gone his way.

With the first run off delayed because the track needed to be swept of standing water after a torrential downpour, Roger Moran borrowed Chris Merrick's MP72 for second after the oil leak problems with the Pilbeam V6 are not yet fixed from Shelsley. He was third in the afternoon.

Tim Mason and Martin Groves failed to qualify for the first run off, whilst Trevor Willis' engine just stopped off the line hence his non score. That left the door open for Ben Butterfield to be the fastest 2 litre runner in the run off.
The next round of the championship is at Doune Near Stirling in Scotland where once more, we expect Graeme Wight Junior to blitz them all, just as he did last time when he shaved - chopped - 1.5 seconds off the record!

Sunday June 9th 2002